County Forum Questions

Mon, 8 Jul 2002 4:22:50 -0400

Just a small nitpick here: Actually MS was found guilty i.e. convicted of abusing it's monopoly power by a Federal District Court, and this was upheld by the Federal Court of Appeals. The DOJ just prosecuted the case. ;-)

<< Robert Bushman <plug@traxel.com> wrote:>>
Multisourcing
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Single sourcing products means accepting several risks,
including the risk that the single source will become abusive.
Recently, Microsoft was found guilty by the Department
of Justice of abusing its monopoly power. Maricopa County
has a clause (MC1-902) in its procurment procedure to
deal with such vendors, but Maricopa County is currently
too dependant to even consider invoking the clause with
Microsoft. What efforts are being made to mitigate
Maricopa County's dependance on a single source which
has been found guilty of abusing dependant customers?